Nicole Malachowski
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750 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 18 Sep
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In all seriousness, I do take the Department of Defense and VA to task on this. I serve as an official ambassador and mentor still to this day with the official Air Force Wounded Warrior Program. In fact, I'm doing an Air Force Wounded Warrior Program event this upcoming weekend.
And there isn't a month that goes by that I am not helping an airman who is being medically retired or evaluated for tick-borne illness.
Wow. What cohort of the American public... is exposed to more global vectors than our service members, you know, by nature, by default, the veterans they become, and the military family station around the world.
There is absolutely no excuse for the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense to not be leaders in this space as far as education, awareness, diagnostics, and treatment. And in fact, when I was, I just read you my form, 100% unfit for duty due to chronic systemic tick-borne illness, It took me four years of fighting. Yeah, it's going to get me emotional.
Four years for the VA to recognize the very thing that I was found 100 percent unfit for duty for to the point that they didn't have a code for what I had. So I was medically retired with a code that the VA wasn't prepared to receive. Unacceptable. Unacceptable. I can say I took that to task. And with the Wounded Warrior Program out of Florida, we were able to get Congress to add in those codes.
And so now at least it's so important.
America's promise. It's the fundamental promise when we I was 17 years old when I took that first oath to the Constitution. And if we don't follow through on America's promise, we have no moral standing or ethical standing, you know, to back us up as Americans. And at the end of the day, it is fundamentally wrong and it impacts recruitment and retention.
I agree with you. It is frustrating. It's exhausting. It's tiring. And it's completely unnecessary.
I appreciate your kind compliment. I will tell you that, you know, with my complex chronic illness, which you guys can't see today and your viewers and listeners, you know, aren't recognizing it. It makes it hard at this point, but I have belief that I'm going to continue to heal and get better. And so maybe running for office is an opportunity in the future.
Thanks for your time.
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